Hello Friends,
Very quiet this morning. Smooth seas and a faint line showing at the point and up the beach at Dee Why. Tide hits a 1.8m high at 0810, so what little we have is also struggling against too much water. There were one or two bods in the water along the beach at Dee Why and as the picture shows, one of them did get caught behind on a waist high set, so it’s not totally flat.
Longer range outlook has not brightened to any extent this morning. We’ve got a south change in prospect for tomorrow morning, but it doesn’t seem likely to produce much in the way of wave energy. Instead we’re probably going to get some very short period and choppy wind blown junk in the knee to waist range. I hope the Goat has something more hopeful in his outlook for the week ahead ’cause it’s looking paltry to me atm.
Gotta jam, so have yourself a top old Thursday one and all!
Weather Situation
A weak ridge of high pressure is over the Tasman Sea, a trough is over the northeast of the state and another weak ridge is over the inland. Southerly winds along the coast behind the trough are expected to tend northeasterly in the south during the day. The trough is expected to stall on the far north coast. A cold front moving northeast across the Southern Ocean is expected to reach the far south coast early Friday bringing a southerly change, which will then move along the coast during the day, reaching the far north early Saturday. A high moving through Bass Strait in the wake of the front should be over the southern Tasman Sea over the weekend. Southeast winds on Saturday will tend back to the northeast in the south later Saturday and over the remainder on Sunday as the high moves further east.
Forecast for Thursday until midnight
- Winds
- South to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots shifting north to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots in the evening.
- Seas
- 1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres around midday.
- Swell
- Easterly below 1 metre.
- Weather
- Mostly sunny.
Friday 20 March
Strong Wind Warning for Friday for Sydney Coast
- Winds
- Northerly 15 to 20 knots shifting southerly 15 to 25 knots in the morning. Winds reaching up to 30 knots offshore in the late evening.
- Seas
- 1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 1.5 to 2.5 metres around midday.
- Swell
- Easterly below 1 metre.
- Weather
- Sunny day. 40% chance of showers in the evening.
Saturday 21 March
- Winds
- Southeasterly 15 to 25 knots turning easterly 15 to 20 knots during the evening.
- Seas
- 1.5 to 2.5 metres.
- Swell
- Easterly below 1 metre.
- Weather
- Cloudy. 40% chance of showers.
